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What 1989 US Supreme Court ruling set a minimum age of 16 for execution?
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Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 US 361 (1989)
The US Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons, (2005) that it is unconstitutional to execute an offender for crimes committed while under the age of 18.
This overturned two relatively recent rulings in Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 US 815 (1988) and Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 US 361 (1989) that declared executing someone for capital crimes committed while under the age of 16 was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, but that executing someone who was at least 16 at the time the crime was committed was constitutional.
The decision in Roper v. Simmons, (2005), overturned death penalty laws in 25 states.
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